They exhibit objects of the Titanic will be auctioned on 100th anniversary of the sinking

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A part of the largest collection of objects recovered from the legendary Titanic was presented yesterday before being auctioned off where you are complied in April with the 100th anniversary of the most famous shipwreck of history.

A small sample of more than 5,000 artifacts was presented to the press in New York, where will be on sale on 11 April, one hundred years and a day before the ship set sail for his first and only voyage and four days before sinking into the sea after hitting an iceberg.

This collection, the largest of rescued objects of the transatlantic, is valued at approximately $ 189 million already it has been collected for more than one quarter century of expeditions carried out by the company RMS Titanic.

One of the experts of the Association participated in these trips to the bottom of the sea is Paul-Henry Nargeolet, who challenge him excited so much that he decided to retire as a commander in the army of France to penetrate in the u000ainner most famous sunken ship of all times

"Was a beautiful, incredible experience." "I feel very fortunate for me happened to me because it is not a common work, told Efe Nargeolet, director of underwater research at Premier Exhibitions, the parent company of RMS Titanic.

Nargeolet explained that its task was very difficult, especially to move larger objects, because "some weighed so much that they fell" and had "returned two years later to recover them, it was a great technical challenge".

However, the Gaul confessed that his favourite piece is large only a small jug of water that attracted attention, "for no reason in particular, should be a recollection of someone".

Collection of artifacts rescued from the Titanic will be auctioned in New York by the Guernsey's House, which requires applicants all objects are properly preserved and are available to be u000aseen by the public.

RMS Titanic ensures that all pieces have been restored with the latest techniques and most boasts a State of preservation optimal, something special if we take into account that it remained almost a century submerged in icy water salty.

The size of the relics is going from the small of hair tongs, pipes for smoking or glasses to see, until the giant of the largest piece that is offered in the bid: a piece of the hull that weighs 17 tons.

Also features a Cherub of bronze that decorated the staircase of the ship, as well as the steering wheel of wooden handled the helmsman of the transatlantic.

El Titanic, which was carrying more than 2,000 passengers on board collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton (United Kingdom) to New York the night of April 14, 1912, causing his sinking almost three hours later, in the early hours of the day 15, South of Newfoundland (Canada).

The u000ashipwreck left balance 1.523 dead. The remains of the boat, submerged 4,000 meters deep, were located in 1985 and since then numerous expeditions have been made.